Urban Nebula

By iaac | Published: October 21, 2010
“The Urban Nebula installation designed by Zaha Hadid  Architects explore the potential
of precast concrete as a medium for repetitive and fluid form, they made a combination
betwen repetitive precast moulding and computer numerical control (cnc) machine moulding.”
The installation is composed of 150 blocks of black polished pre-cast concrete with a total mass
of 30 tonnes, bolted together to form a perforated wall that seamlessly transforms into furniture,
resonating between architecture as a material.”
“The installation is placed outside the Royal Festival Hall in London since october 2007.”
“The system of standard elements is created in which each individual component has a
unique variation. The original design of one standard element with a range of end conditions
was mapped using 3D imaging software.”
“The individual elements were then made using standard  steel moulds into which computer
cut polystyrene end pieces were inserted,  together with stainless steel anchors for fixing.”

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Case Studies: Prada Epicenter

By iaac | Published: October 21, 2010

The Prada Epicenter was designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog + de Meuron Architects in the Aoyama district, Tokyo (Japan).  It was completed in 2003, and it is serves as a retail building for the Prada brand and its products.  The building located in a corner has a small entrance ‘plaza’, and it is conformed by display shelves, fitting rooms, elevators, and staircases.

The lattice structural system conformed by diamond- shaped steel and interesting concave and convex glass gives to the building a particular transparency.  The building itself, which is an eccentric 6-story glass crystal, is considered as a huge display cabinet where everything can be seen from the exterior.  During the day, it sometimes reflects the sky.

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Mobile performance venue

By iaac | Published: October 21, 2010

Study cases #1 By Herto Bayu Apriano I Published: October 21st 2010

The Mobile performance venue (MPV) is one of the temporary venue has designed to accommodate the live performance and the art exhibition activities. It designed by Various Architect that located in Oslo.

The Mobile Performance Venue (MPV) aims to represent Arts Alliance Productions and their performance “ID – Identity of the Soul” worldwide in 2009.

The venue form is consists of inflatable outer walls surrounding a central aluminum stage-structure.

It planned to be set up in many different areas around the world. Therefore the venue has designed with utilizing the lightweight material such as self-supporting PVC skin of hexagonal inflated tubes and cushions in order to be able transported in standard shipping containers with quick erection time and set-up onsite.

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Leaf Chapel

By iaac | Published: October 21, 2010

The Leaf chapel, designed by klein dytham Architecture is formed by 2 leaves – one glass, one steel – which have seemingly fluttered to the ground. The glass leaf with its delicate lace pattern motif emulates a pergola and the structure holding it up reminds one of the veins of a leaf which slowly become thinner the further they get from the central stem.

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Case studies: Cité du Design Saint Étienne

By iaac | Published: October 21, 2010

This particular international exhibition center was built to replace an old munitions factory in Saint Étienne, France, and it opened its doors to the public on October of last year (2009).  The building designed by Finn Geipel and Giulia Andi of LIN Architects (Berlin and Paris) is conformed by auditoriums, meeting rooms, indoor gardens, exhibition space, a media library, and an observation tower located alongside the long hall.

The building’s skin, which is a latticed structure, forms the walls and roof of the complex.  The steel space truss is reminiscent of the industrial architecture of factories, and spans the entire space -no columns are required.  The skin, through its multiple triangles, is composed in a mechanical way that helps to control light, temperature, and airflow according to the different climatic conditions during the year.  Actually, some of these triangles are photovoltaic cells that generate green power to the building and others, and also it open and closes depending of indoor comfort.

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HOLLOW / entry in sukkah city

By iaac | Published: October 21, 2010

HOLLOW  by ‘visiondivision’
hollow’ is an organic pavilion that changes the conditions for social interaction and behavior. simply built,
using compression to hold the structure together, the concept is designed by visiondivision (ulf mejergren and anders berensson) as their competition entry for sukkah city, where designers / architects were asked to design a modern sukkah – a temporary hut created for an annual jewish harvest festival – in union square, new york city.

hollow’ is an organic pavilion that changes the conditions for social interaction and behavior. simply built, using compression to hold the structure together, the concept is designed by visiondivision (ulf mejergren and anders berensson) as their competition entry for sukkah city, where designers / architects were asked to design a modern sukkah – a temporary hut created for an annual jewish harvest festival – in union square, new york city.

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GHOST_TRACK

By iaac | Published: October 21, 2010

GHOST_TRACK

VIIIth VENICE BIENNALE EXHIBITION
“Contexts”. Exhibition at the French Pavilion. 2002
Site: French Pavilion, Venice
Client: French Ministry of Culture
Size: 3200mm x 1200mm
Cost: € 15,000
Design Team : David Serero & Elena Fernandez | ITERAE + Arnaud Descombes & Antoine Regnault | DZO
“…It is easier to create a digital model of verbal knowledge (like «teaching» a machine to play chess, for example) than to model a savoir-faire or making, a technique of manual elaboration that implies irregularity, hesitation, trial and error, internal logics of compensation, in an attempt to keep the surface as a whole together. The technique of braiding evokes this kind of complexity where the hands interact with the form in each of the knots. It points to the power and product of a transformative intelligence, which is a mental and material process shared by any kind of technique. The art of braiding, knotting, twisting and curling motifs, the oscillation of the thread around the fabric generate an incessant inversed and reversed figure as they are dreams of spaces without seams, where the weave looses in its density of the surface the linearity of its contour. Like a carpet covered with ornamental patterns, the woven surface uses a simple movement, which repetition and recurrence proceed by gradual complication in time and in space.
Architecture begins with and in ornament, or rather, in the woven mat; not with its capacity to provide shelter or put up an enclosure, but with its actual fibrous quality. The interior is not defined by a continuous enclosure of walls but by the folds, twists, and turns in an often-discontinuous ornamental surface. The ornamental destiny of the twisted surface begins the process of superposition of form and structure. Ornament emerges within structure…”
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Croatia’s ‘Floating Pavilion’ / Venice Biennale 2011

By iaac | Published: October 21, 2010

CROATIA’S ”FLOATING PAVILION” FOR THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE IN VENICE, ITALY
image courtesy pavilion.hr
photo by zelimir grzancic
For the event of this year’s venice architecture biennale, croatia has designed
and built a floating pavilion on an existing barge to be tugged by a tow boat
to the site of the international event. Constructed out of 32 tons of steel,
the structure’s form is defined by a methodical system consisting of over 40 layers
of welded Q385 wire mesh. Each layer contours at varying depths and lengths
to create a carved out space which plays with different transparencies, densities,
and vision lines. Despite the solid and heavy materials, the resulting effect is
a blurring of form;at a distance, the pavilion conveys elements of fragility and lightness.
the project is a collaborative effort by 14 croatian architects and members
of the local maritime industry.
However, despite the relatively short journey from croatia to venice,
the pavilion experienced structural problems and never made it to the italian site.
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Case studies

By iaac | Published: October 21, 2010
Cite du Design

Cite du Design, Centre International du Design, is a center for research and studies in design completed in 2009 is located in St. Ettiene , France. LIN Architects won this international competition with a proposal that consist in a 3d triangular skin pattern that becomes the structural walls and roof of the building allowing to have an open and flexible interior.

© Christian Richters

© Christian Richters

© Christian Richters

This structure contains spaces for exhibitions, auditorium, library, and internal gardens. The building has a very efficient system of heat exchange to reduce the energy consumption.

© Christian Richters

© Christian Richters

The skin of the building has an integrated system were they control the openings for light control and privacy depending of the interior use, the application of photovoltaic cells in the grid produced all the energy consumed by the facility.

© Christian Richters
HYPOSURFACE

HYPOSURFACE begins with an idea of the Emerging MIT Research that proposed a mechanism for an interaction between the user and a surface , after experimenting for a couple of years they have being improving the mechanism and attaching some new features. Though this years they have participated in international exhibitions and won many awards.

Hyposurface is a display system where the screen surfaces moves and respond to sensors or pre-controlled patterns like logos, text display, colors, or sound.
It could have many uses for exhibitions or commercial promotion , or even for a facade that could reflect whats happening in the inside or outside of a building.


For video check, watch?v=_biPcv7KZoU
Source of information, http://hyposurface.org/

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Case Studies: Structural Skin

By iaac | Published: October 21, 2010

SEATTLE CENTRAL LIBRARY; OMA

The 34,000 sq. m. building has the capacity to house 1.45 million books, arranged in a non-conventional manner to entice visitors and promote physical books in a digital age. The spaces created by the wrapping skin house programmatic functions in four different floating platforms. The functions and their relationship to each other dictated the design of the building, and then a steel and glass skin was used to wrap and form the spaces, thus resulting in the unusual shape of the building, and the necessity for a structural skin. The circulation flows through the different spaces that overlap each other visually, though not always on the same plane of elevation. The structural façade facilitates this by allowing a suspension of different spaces, and allowing visual permeability through the design of the structure.

source: archinet.com

source: oma.nl

source: stgb.blogspot.com

TOD’S, OMOTESANDO; TOYO ITO

A building designed to house the high end Italian shoe retailer, it is distinctly a project that uses its structural façade to stand out from its surrounding retail architecture. With a limited frontage on an important retail street, the building needed to make a visual statement without relying on excessive storefront display. The entire skin of the building was used to create a visual identity. The structural concrete and glass skin in conceptual form is an abstraction of the trees that line Omotesando street. The façade serves a second purpose, being a structural element, it frees the interior spaces from the need of columns, or load bearing interior walls. The interior paces are therefore more freely designed without any additional constraints to what is already a narrow footprint to work with.

source: archrecord.construction.com

source: artisticstation.blogspot.com

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